Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adopt a policy of strict industrial unionism not only for mass production workers but also for maritime, service, public utility and basic fabricating industries; 2) formation of an autonomous "C.I.O. department" within A.F. of L. with sole jurisdiction over industrial unions; 3) a joint A.F. of L.-C.I.O. national convention to ratify the agreement...
English A, although possibly a monster of boredom to several hundred fledglings unable to wield adverbs and prepositions, accomplishes this basic purpose. Those who wish to go further than the required course in composition carries them usually take English A-1, and this course presents a problem in teaching for the single reason that it contains men interested in two different kinds of writing...
Since steel production is a basic economic index and since the stockmarket's traditional bellwether is U. S. Steel (whose operations last week were down a similar percentage"), a good case can be built to prove that railroad weakness is the governing factor in the current market slide. Last week this case was very much confused by the behavior of railroad stocks in one of the most tumultuous weeks in stockmarket history...
...proportion to operating costs is because the Interstate Commerce Commission on Jan. 1 removed the emergency freight rates set up in 1931. Anticipating this $120,000,000 cut in revenue, the roads in October 1936 petitioned the I. C. C. to raise freight rates on certain basic commodities. Last week it somehow became generally understood in Wall Street that the I. C. C. was about to announce a favorable decision. With throttle wide and all passengers clinging to their seats, railroad stocks thundered up, pulling the whole market along with them...
...annual Automobile Shows-opened by the Manhattan show (staged by the manufacturers) and followed immediately by 44 shows in other cities (staged by dealers)-are eagerly anticipated pageants where the nation's most progressive industry displays new and wonderful improvements in U. S. mankind's most basic luxury. Improvements in 1938 automobiles are. however, neither new nor wonderful. Cars look virtually the same as last year, save for a few refinements of streamlining. Only one newcomer, a midget car named Bantam, makes its debut. Mechanical advances are meagre...